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50 people quarantinee after new Ebola death in S. Leone

Fifty people have been placed in quarantine in northern Sierra Leone
after the death of a middle-aged woman from the Ebola virus, medical
officials said Tuesday, in a setback for the country’s bid to gain
Ebola-free status.
“We are conducting an epidemiological investigation to trace the
extent of the transmission” as the woman ho died was sick for 5-10 days
without the authorities being alerted, Ibrahim Sesay of the National
Ebola Response Centre (NERC) told a local radio station.
Given the 50 people identified as at high-risk “we should not be surprised if we see new cases coming out,” from the new case
identified in the village of Sella Kafta in the northern district of Kambia, he said.
“Ebola is like the main actor in an horror film. Defeat the actor and he is likely to get up again,” Sesay added.
There had been celebratory scenes last week when the country’s last
known Ebola patient was released from hospital in the central city of
Makeni after being cured of the virus, raising hopes the west African
nation may finally have beaten the devastating epidemic.
The latest victim had not travelled to either Liberia or Guinea, two
other countries also blindsided by the worst outbreak of Ebola in
history, which has killed some 11,300 people since first emerging in
December 2013 in Guinea.
News of the new Ebola death came as a new school year got underway
Monday, with measures in place to try prevent the spread of the virus.
Children’s temperatures were being checked at many schools, and
students were directed towards buckets of chlorine to wash their hands.
Schools were closed for more than eight months at the height of the Ebola outbreak.
Reports from Kambia said community leaders and residents remained “in a state of shock” over the news.
An elder and long time resident in Sella Kafta, Sampha Mansaray told
AFP by phone that “the community is in mourning over the death.”
“We have been thorough in observing all restrictions to keep Ebola
out of our community but we have now failed the rest of the country by
being the place that has halted the countdown” towards Ebola-free
status, the 60-year-old farmer lamented.

50 people quarantinee after new Ebola death in S. Leone
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